Video: 'The Birmingham Six Release, Live Broadcast. R.T.E. 1991'

(Thursday, March 14, 1991; during the Northern Ireland conflict) — A British appeals court, citing fresh evidence, today overturned the convictions of six men from Northern Ireland, known as the Birmingham Six, who were sentenced to life in prison for the bombings of two pubs in 1974, the bloodiest assault by the Irish Republican Army on the British mainland.
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